Help with Angela's Recovery

This is for helping Angela Butch and Yoni Kallai during Angela's recovery.

Please help our magical and loving friend Angela get back on her feet as she heals from a painful acrobatic accident that left her with fractures in her L5 spine and sacrum, a concussion, and resulting loss of work.

Since the scope of costs are still unclear, as expenses reveal themselves, we will keep updating on what the goal is but we wanted to start getting this family their help right away.

Just a few weeks ago, our vibrant Angela was severely injured while performing circus arts. She fell 15 feet from the air onto solid concrete, first crashing onto her pelvis (as Angela wrote on her Instagram page, "my meatiest part amen"), and then hitting the back of her head on the concrete.

An ambulance rushed Angela to the hospital, and she was kept in the hospital for 2.5 days as she received emergency care, CT scans, X-rays, physical therapy and occupational therapy to help her begin to move, stand and take steps again.

Angela first had to regain endurance to remain upright, and is now working hard on regaining the ability to walk without walking aids and maintain balance (she said she's shifted from her ~fancy grannie walker~ to a cane).

With her spinal fracture in the largest vertebra of the spine, her recovery is very tiring. Her body is calling for sleep every few hours, and she is still mostly home-bound as she can't move quickly or risk any falls or bumps as the bones in her spine re-grow and re-set.

Angela's concussion has given her extreme vertigo and difficulty balancing, as well as pain and fatigue when looking at screens, reading, or concentrating for long periods of time.

It’s especially difficult that the physical therapy that's helping her to regain mobility is also having temporary effects of increasing her concussion symptoms.

Angela's typical joy is finding ways to shine through, but as you can imagine, this is a long, painful, and expensive recovery, especially because her career and income are gig to gig and depend on her own physical movement, or managing others' performances which would require the screen time that is currently so exhausting for her. Angela has described it as waking up feeling like she's run a marathon.

Additionally, because of the severity of her injuries, Angela needs significant assistance from her husband Yoni, who is her main caretaker. The family now relies fully on Yoni's income, but that also means that Yoni must sometimes be away from Angela, sometimes traveling, leaving Angela and Yoni to spend time and effort coordinating for Angela's supportive care.

Angela and family need our help with her medical costs including the ambulance, hospital stay bill, physical therapy costs, occupational therapy costs, and help making up for her lost income for at best 4-6 months and potentially longer. The totals of many costs are still unknown and growing, and we will update as the bills unfold.

100% of donations will go directly to Angela.

In addition to this GoFundMe, our dear friends over at Coney Island Sideshow are hosting an in-person fundraiser for Angela on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. https://www.coneyisland.com/event/angelabutchbenefit

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